02795nam a2200361 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020001500112020001800127020002700145040002100172035002100193050002300214082001600237100001800253245014200271260006600413300002500479504005100504505044800555520100701003533015202010650002902162650003002191650002302221655002902244710001702273856012602290999001702416ebr10623252CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||120910s2012    enka    sb    001 0 eng d  z  2012406462  z0719086906  z9780719086908  z9781847794291 (e-book)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)80860032314aRC883b.M35 2012eb04a616.6942231 aMak, Geertje.10aDoubting sexh[electronic resource] :binscriptions, bodies and selves in nineteenth-century hermaphrodite case histories /cGeertje Mak.  aManchester ;aNew York :bManchester University Press,c2012.  aviii, 284 p. :bill.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIntroduction -- Inscription. Secrecy and disclosure: politics of containment -- Early sex reassignments and the absence of a sex of self -- Herculine Barbin -- Body. How to get the semen to the neck of the womb -- Justine Jumas: conflicting body politics -- The dislodgement of the person -- Self. Sex assignment around 1900: from a legal to a clinical issue -- The turn inwards -- Scripting the self: N. O. Body's autobiography -- Conclusion.  a"An adolescent girl is mocked when she takes a bath with her peers, because her genitals look like those of a boy. A couple visits a doctor asking to 'create more space' in the woman for intercourse. A doctor finds testicular tissue in a woman with appendicitis, and decides to keep his findings quiet. These are just a few of the three hundred European case histories of people whose sex was doubted during the long nineteenth century that Geertje Mak draws upon in her remarkable new book. How did people deal with such situations? How did they decide to which sex a person should belong? This groundbreaking analysis of clinical case histories shows how sex changed from an outward appearance inscribed in a social body to something to be found deep inside body and self. A fascinating, easy to follow, yet sophisticated argument addressing major issues of the history of body, sex, and self, this volume will fit advanced undergraduate courses, while challenging specialists."--Publisher's website.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2011.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aIntersexualityxHistory. 0aGender identityxHistory. 0aSex rolexHistory. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10623252zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c55769d55769